We decided to go with one of the most revolutionary brand in the last decade, Urwerk`s dream was born in 1995 of the brilliant minds of Felix and Thomas Baumgartner two brothers and amazingly talented watchmakers and Martin Frei artist and designer, the common passion on the time design was the result of the foundation in 1997of this unique brand.
From 1195 to 1997 Martin designed the sketches for the pieces and the Baumgartner brother dedicated their minds to solve the technical aspects of the movement and complication. Inspired by the 17 century Campanus Night clock, the team aimed to distil timekeeping to its very essence, to calm the perception of time by removing all extraneous indications and distractions.
The night clock was created in 1656 by the Campanus brothers for Pope Alexander XII, in this piece they replaced the conventional hands for figures on rotating discs, with performed a semicircular arc across the rock face
The name is quite peculiar URWERK, well actually if formed by two words, UR as the ancient city of the Sumerians that contribute to the world declaring that the passage of these shadows through the course of one year should be partitioned into12 units, thus laying the foundation for a system of timekeeping which has endured to this day, and the word WERK that in German means to work, evolve, well this guys clearly evolved thing around the watchmaking industry.
Urwerk is a brand like never seen before, with a unique taste for design and an incredible mechanism that have features like an oil change indicator and a horological odometer with indication of 150 years quite amazing don’t you think?
The pieces in Urwerk collection are:
UR-CC1- ALTIN
UR-202S
UR-203
UR-202
UR-103T
UR103
UR-110
We hope you enjoy this article and be around to read about the URWERK pieces we will publish soon.
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